GTR 2002 questions

Hi folks, first of all let me say a big thank you for this awesome mod. Great stuff! I have a question concerning the auto clutch (I guess). I have it set to on, and sometimes the car just bogs down in 2nd gear (tried this driving the Ferraris using Doug's setups) and will come to a complete stop unless I downshift into first and really rev it up. Also in these situations there is smoke to be seen in the rear mirror. After a while everything is back to normal and the car accelerates normally. Can someone tell me what might be causing this? Another observation: The sim stutters heavily in wet weather (probably due to spray or something). I am not talking of low frame rates, but definitive jumps in the display, very annoying. System specs: Athlon XP 1800+, Win98SE, GF2MX400. Again, great stuff otherwise. The sound is incredible! Great work, guys. Cheers & thanks in advance, Uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

as far as bogging down...check your lcd display and change it to picture of the car. Is the driveline icon flashing yellow when it bogs down? You could be dragging your chassis. Otherwise..what 'race driver' lets his engine bog down? Floor it man! :) "Uwe Schuerkamp"

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> first of all let me say a big thank you for this awesome mod. > Great stuff! I have a question concerning the auto clutch (I > guess). I have it set to on, and sometimes the car just bogs > down in 2nd gear (tried this driving the Ferraris using Doug's > setups) and will come to a complete stop unless I downshift > into first and really rev it up. Also in these situations there > is smoke to be seen in the rear mirror. After a while > everything is back to normal and the car accelerates normally. > > Can someone tell me what might be causing this? > > Another observation: The sim stutters heavily in wet weather > (probably due to spray or something). I am not talking of low > frame rates, but definitive jumps in the display, very > annoying. System specs: Athlon XP 1800+, Win98SE, GF2MX400.

I upgraded my Athlon XP 1800 from a GF2MX400 to a GF4Ti and the difference was night and day in F1200X. It didn't really make much difference in N2002, GP4, GPL etc. I'm not talking in 1600x1200 or anything - even in 640x480 this game is crippled by a GF2 - especially the MX. The rain and smoke/dust effects impact performance quite a bit on most systems.

On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 01:44:42 GMT, Dave Henrie wrote: > as far as bogging down...check your lcd display and change it to picture > of the car. Is the driveline icon flashing yellow when it bogs down? You Thanks for your reply, Dave. No, it's not flashing, it feels like the car isn't accepting throttle. I drove at Melbourne and it usually happens exiting Whiteford and entering the fast right hand sweeper. It feels really strange, and as Doug noted in his great physics pdf it might have to do something with me not blipping the throttle during shifts or whatever, I really have no idea. > be dragging your chassis. Otherwise..what 'race driver' lets his > engine bog down? Floor it man! :) Have you tried the mod yet? Floor it and your tyres go up in smoke ;-) As for the spray / frame rate issue, I don't experience these stutters driving the vanilla f 2002 in the wet, so it must be mod related even if my GF2MX (admittedly) sucks. There's a GF4 on the way after Xmas, but that is still some time off ;-) Best & thanks everyone for your suggestions, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:00:12 +0100, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:

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> > Thanks for your reply, Dave. No, it's not flashing, it feels > like the car isn't accepting throttle. I drove at Melbourne and > it usually happens exiting Whiteford and entering the fast > right hand sweeper. It feels really strange, and as Doug noted > in his great physics pdf it might have to do something with me > not blipping the throttle during shifts or whatever, I really > have no idea.

Ok, I got it! It's that old TSW issue[1] again. In the calibration screen, I can see the brake axis (RZ) flash up to the middle and back again erraneously. If I tap the brake pedal, all is fine again. Strangely this does not happen in f1 2002 on the same setup, so I just copied all the "Axis" lines from my f1 2002 player over to the player in gtr 2002, and now all works fine in GTR2002??? I remember having the same problem with the Alfa mod when I tried it. If anyone suffers from this problem using a TSW in split axis mode, please let me know and I'll send you the relevant part of my .PLR file. Yes, I tried posting this on the simmod forums, but the site won't let me log in for some reason. Cheers, uwe [1] Actually, this bug is due to the directinput routines being a bit braindead regarding axis detectionn, as one would expect from an MS product ;-) papy products in generic mode work great with the TSW. -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61